Sun, 18 Jun 2006 | By jane-of-the-jungle | Views [871] | Comments [3]
On
the banks of the grey, green, greasy, Limpopo River, beloved, that self same
river where the elephant child got his trunk, Kipling could have written a
sequel about How Joe and Jane of the Jungle became 2 large human Frisbees after
being ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Fri, 9 Jun 2006 | By jane-of-the-jungle | Views [2332] | Comments [9]
SOS Childrens Village Francistown
At last we have our website going! It has beeen taking us ½ hour to open one e mail!
We have now been here 3 weeks, living in SOS Francistown. The SOS villages are the inspiration of a Dane and are now all over ... Read more >
Tags: People
Tue, 30 May 2006 | By jane-of-the-jungle | Views [761] | Comments [11]
Your intrepid travellers ventured from the safety of the orphanage on their first camping trip. We camped at a Bird sanctuary by the salt pans. The tent we have borrowed seemed flimsy and insubstantial compared to the lions elephants and dinasaurs ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Thu, 10 Jun 2004 | By johnandconnie | Views [848]
This will be, baring major catastrophe, our last night in Botswana. We’re camped at a ‘highly recommended’ campground ‘behind the railroad station’ (which sounds like an earplug recipe) in the town of Palapye. No matter, it can’t be noisier than ... Read more >
Tue, 8 Jun 2004 | By johnandconnie | Views [1731]
We arose at 5:00am on Sunday to meet our pickup to Makwena Lodge in the Okavanga. Actually the Lodge is on an island at the edge of the Delta at the southern end of the panhandle as we found out when we saw the map. And on our flight we learned ... Read more >
Sat, 5 Jun 2004 | By johnandconnie | Views [794]
It took all day Friday to travel from Etosha to Botswana along the Angolan border. At first it didn’t look like there was a road into Botswana but we saw a border crossing on the map so we took a chance. On the way out of Etosha, after having ... Read more >